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Research of
The Space Resources Roundtable
In co-operation with its academic membership, the SRR distributes research related to the use and understanding of space resources. Documentation related to that work may be found in this directory.
Space Resource Economic Analysis Toolkit: The Case for Commercial Lunar Ice Mining (2002)
The Colorado School of Mines, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and CSP Associates (Cambridge, MA) collaborated in a study of an integrated engineering-economic tool that was used to analyze the case of water, produced on the Moon, as a source of propellant for the transfer of communications satellites from low Earth orbit to geosynchronous Earth orbit.
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Conceptual Design of a Lunar Oxygen Pilot Plant (1988)
This report was sponsored by the Johnson Space Center in 1988 and describes a full engineering analysis of processes to extract oxygen from regolith ilmenite and solar wind hydrogen from the regolith. It contains many valuable scaling relationships for excavation, processing and extraction equipment.
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The Lunar Dust Problem:
From Liability to Asset
Lunar Dust has high magnetic susceptibility such that it can be picked up with a hand-held magnet!
Recent discoveries of the unique magnetic properties of lunar mare and highland soils by the senior author’s Tennessee group have led to suggested solutions to the liability of the lunar dust.
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Microwave Sintering of Lunar Soil:
Properties, Theory, and Practice
Lunar soil placed in your kitchen microwave will melt at 1200ºC BEFORE your tea-water boils at 100ºC!
Using real Apollo 17 soil has demonstrated the uniqueness of the interaction of microwave radiation with the soil. The applications that can be made of the microwave treatment of lunar soil for in situ resource utilization on the Moon are unlimited.
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